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The Mortimers of Wigmore, 1066-1485
Pilgrim Spy
This is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century.It is a first-hand account of a mission by an SAS soldier sent behind the Iron Curtain by MI6 to find someone who …
Japanese Castles AD 250 1540
Dr Stephen Turnbull is internationally recognised for his research into and writing on Japanese military history. Here he applies his scholarship to an account of the evolution of …
Royal Castles and Palaces
The essays in this book, Royal Castles and Palaces - Symbolic Values in Modern Times, stem from a seminar in a project called Royal History arranged by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son …
Wexford Castles
Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a …
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is one of Scotland’s great historic landmarks. The city’s most prominent feature, it stands on a volcanic crag that has been occupied since the Bronze Age. This …
The Town Well Fortified
Between 1639 and 1660, more than 1,000 places across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were fortified. These included towns and villages, castles and manor houses, as well as …
Nyborg Fæstning
I kraft af sin strategiske beliggenhed og som sæde for den danske kongemagt og mødested for det middelalderlige danske parlament, Danehoffet, indtager Nyborg en vigtig plads i …
Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC– AD 1644
It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, …
British Military Airfield Architecture
A detailed examination of the principal types of building on Britain's military airfields, from the pioneering airship days, through two world wars to the beginning of the jet age. …
Madinat al-Zahra
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the famed palace-city that was once the heart of Islamic SpainMadinat al-Zahra, a tenth-century palace-city on the western outskirts of …
